Fibre cuts impacted several countries (in particular Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran)  in the early morning on December 19th 2019 according to https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420?ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3O_v7SeQw1buUkMW4vB7iFDLecMV6FIR5DXOEmdbx1VrPpfjw2my_6ZMo. According to the BBC the issue lasted for about 2 hours on Thursday (2019/12/19) morning. Another report from Netblocks also identifies the problem as during the hours of 7am and 8am December 19, 2019

Iran

Looking at the 7 hosts in Iran (see https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/pingtable.pl?file=packet_loss&by=by-node&size=100&tick=hourly&year=2019&month=12&day=19&from=EDU.SLAC.STANFORD.PINGER&to=Turkey&ex=none&only=all&ipv=all&dataset=hep&percentage=any) that are monitored from SLAC we see in the spreadsheet a peak aggregate packet loss for the hours of  7 and 8pm GMT.

Bulgaria

One of the 4 hosts in Bulgaria exhibited a bug packet loss of 16% in the hour 8:00-8:59am GMT. The others saw no loss.

 

 

The database for the host gives us:

 NODENAME:        www.varna.bg 
 IPADDRESS:       91.230.192.53 
 SITENAME:        varna.bg 
 NICKNAME:        BG.VARNA.WWW 
 FULLNAME:        Varna Municipality 
 LOCATION:        Varna 
 COUNTRY:         Bulgaria 
 CONTINENT:       Balkans 
 LATANDLONG:      43.2012 27.9148 
 PROJECTTYPE:     NOT-SET 
 PINGSERVER:      NOT-SET 
 TRACESERVER:     NOT-SET 
 DATASERVER:      NOT-SET 
 URL:             http://www.varna.bg/ 
 CONTACTS:        Google 
 COMMENTS:        Add by Cottrell 8/5/2019. 

Turkey

For the three hosts in Turkey that are monitored from SLAC there was no evidence of packet loss in the morning of Thursday 12/19/2019.

 

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